A grizzly bear killed a trainer Tuesday at a private facility for exotic animals used in film, television and advertising, authorities said.

Three experienced handlers were working with the bear at Randy Miller’s Predators in Action when the bear bit the 39-year-old man on the neck, said San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Cindy Beavers.

The center’s staff used pepper spray to subdue and contain the bear, and there were no other injuries, she said.

The victim’s name was not immediately released.

LOS ANGELES

Loan collateral in

sex-abuse settlement

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is using its school properties to help pay $660 million to people who had contended they were victims of clergy sex abuse.

Spokesman Tod Tamberg said the diocese has put up six high schools as collateral on a $50 million loan to go toward the settlement.

He said five of the schools are in no danger of closing because of the action. The sixth already had been slated to close in June.

A judge in July 2007 approved the diocese’s $660 million settlement in clergy sex-abuse cases.

Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents.